Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though no quarter was given in the training, some sensible accommodation was made to cope with the differences between the sexes. To adapt to shorter limbs (Ride is 5 ft. 5 in.), shuttle seats were built so that they could slide like those in a car. Optional grooming aids were added to the personal kits of the astronauts (though Ride pointedly has not said whether she will wear lipstick or powder for the inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy...
...change?"--Black Students Association President Alan C. Shaw '85 community must look inward to overcome its divisions. "Is it wise to continue to blame the University for our incohesiveness or should we change?" he asks. According to Shaw, the BSA lost support in recent years because it did not adapt its policies to the new, more moderate group of Blacks on campus. These students are not apolitical, he argues, but rather would prefer to work within the mainstream where possible...
...intense planning, which involved a good deal of student politicking. Princeton has decided to address a long-standing disorganization in its housing system. This year marks the start of a two-year transition period when new dorms will be built, older ones renovated, and all students forced to adapt to a complicated new system for allocating rooms...
...succeed at selling customized products, firms need skilled work forces able to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs. Instead of sharpening workers' skills, Reich says, many big companies have laid off employees in the U.S. and set up assembly lines overseas. Rather than push hard for retraining, most blue-collar unions have clung to rigid job classifications and inefficient work rules...
...Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass are always in bloom...